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Most of the current Schubert literature is based, as Fischer-Dieskau notes, on the documents unearthed and published in 1946 by the Austrian scholar Otto Erich Deutsch. Compared with the 1,500 letters of Beethoven that still exist, the Schubert documentation is woefully small. Use of the songs to fill in some of the "psychological gaps" is a potentially dangerous technique. Mozart, for example, produced joyous music in desperate circumstances. With Schubert, however, it seems an acceptable approach. Aside from his school teaching and boozy sessions in various Viennese inns, the composer had almost no life at all apart from...
...Cambridge Chamber Players, with Guest Artist Pianist Andre-Michel Schub, will present the final Longy Series Concert including pieces by Beethoven, Villa-lobos, Mozart and Mendelssohn at the Longy School of Music...
...Boston University Repertory Orchestra, conducted by Jerome Rosen, will perform Dvorak's "Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95; Beethoven's "Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 36"; and Schubert's "Symphony No. 8 in B minor, D759 at the School for the Arts...
Nermin Ciragan, pianist, will play works of Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, and Liszt in the Cabot Hall Living Room, South House...
...Beethoven: Sonata No. 21 in C (Waldstein), Eroica Variations (Pianist Emanuel Ax, RCA). Since winning the Artur Rubinstein International Piano Competition in Israel in 1974, Emanuel Ax has devoted himself on records primarily to Chopin, and expertly so. Here he turns to Beethoven with a dream technique that more than meets the virtuoso demands of both works. But unlike many a prizewinner, he has much more than dexterity going for him. Ax controls the music completely, not it him. Such ease, logic and warmth suggest that he is a Beethoven pianist to keep...